diff --git a/doc/README.md b/doc/README.md
index 2c1ad3b95..2cff32f3f 100644
--- a/doc/README.md
+++ b/doc/README.md
@@ -5999,7 +5999,7 @@ _.endsWith('abc', 'b', 2);
 ### <a id="_escapestring"></a>`_.escape([string=''])`
 <a href="#_escapestring">#</a> [&#x24C8;](https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/3.3.1/lodash.src.js#L9925 "View in source") [&#x24C9;][1] [&#x24C3;](https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash.escape "See the npm package")
 
-Converts the characters "&", "<", ">", '"', "'", and '`', in `string` to
+Converts the characters "&", "<", ">", '"', "'", and "\`", in `string` to
 their corresponding HTML entities.
 <br>
 <br>
diff --git a/lodash.src.js b/lodash.src.js
index 5dd22deb6..d964c8336 100644
--- a/lodash.src.js
+++ b/lodash.src.js
@@ -9793,7 +9793,7 @@
     }
 
     /**
-     * Converts the characters "&", "<", ">", '"', "'", and '`', in `string` to
+     * Converts the characters "&", "<", ">", '"', "'", and "\`", in `string` to
      * their corresponding HTML entities.
      *
      * **Note:** No other characters are escaped. To escape additional characters